The most important thing she'd learned over the years was that there was no way to be a perfect mother and a million ways to be a good one.

About Mark Twain

Portrait of Mark Twain

Samuel Langhorne Clemens (November 30, 1835 – April 21, 1910), known by the pen name Mark Twain, was an American writer, humorist, and essayist. He has been praised as the "greatest humorist the United States has produced", with William Faulkner calling him "the father of American literature". Twain's novels include...

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I have never taken any exercise except sleeping and resting.

What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.

If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.

Our opinions do not really blossom into fruition until we have expressed them to someone else.

I am not one of those who in expressing opinions confine themselves to facts.

More quotations tagged with “parents”

For rarely are sons similar to their fathers: most are worse, and a few are better than their fathers.

—Lois McMaster Bujold

This is part of the essence of motherhood, watching your kid grow into her own person and not being able to do anything about it. Otherwise children would be nothing more than pets.

—King Edward VIII

That's sort of a cliche about parents. We all believe that our children are the most beautiful children in the world. But the thing is, what no one really talks about is the fact that we all really believe it.

—Jill Churchill

There is nothing to suggest that mothering cannot be shared by several people.

The gods visit the sins of the fathers upon the children.

—Heather Armstrong

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